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germ

noun as in microscopic organism, often causing illness

noun as in beginning

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Some coronavirus experts have suggested that on reinfection the covid-19 germ will stay in the upper airway, causing sniffles, rather than penetrating the lungs to cause pneumonia.

A world of germs is vying to invade your body and make you sick.

Among such immune people, a germ now has a hard time finding a new host.

Without masks, people sick with the new coronavirus can likely spread the germs even without coughing or sneezing.

Scientists might also use this information to learn how such germs keep their hosts — us — healthy.

And despite years of speculation, nobody has proved Assad has any germ warfare capability at all.

“Those practices did develop out of concerns about germ-sharing about a century ago,” she said.

When asked if the potential for germ-sharing bothered her, she scoffed: “Not at all.”

Eisner, who lives in a city obsessed with health, has noticed that people have gotten quite germ-phobic.

In the meantime, toss out that beef jerky, and bust open that vat of wheat-germ!

There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

Mr. William Aird, the germ-proof man, has been giving demonstrations in London.

It is reported that last week a germ snapped at him and broke off two of its teeth.

The boy struck him as talented, but nothing made him suspect the germ of a great composer.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to germ, such as: antibody, bacterium, bug, disease, microbe, and microorganism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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